It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s…

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

— Brian Eno

There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence,…

— Alveda King

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

— John Charles Polanyi

The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department…

— Annie Jacobsen

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range…

— Alain de Botton

“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying, or maintaining…

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

“some activists and theorists treat aesthetic objects and creative works as displaying a political potentiality missing from classes, parties, and unions. This aesthetic focus…

— Anonymous

“There were elements of Mad Men at Newsweek, except that unlike the natty advertising types, journalists were notorious slobs and our two- and three-martini…

— Lynn Povich

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

— David Gross

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive…

— Russell Smith

“It was true in the early 1960s, more women smoked than men.”

— Jay Conrad Levinson

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early…

— Robert Darnton

“Still, it is a stretch to regard the beats as initiating a major cultural trend in the late 1950s, let alone to see them…

— James T. Patterson

“But the rise of rock 'n' roll was nonetheless one of the most shocking cultural phenomena of the mid- and late 1950s, especially to…

— James T. Patterson